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title: 'Comfort yourself,' said the stranger kindly; 'they shall neither se… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Comfort yourself,' said the stranger kindly; 'they shall neither send your husband to prison nor sell your goods. Who acts: stranger, sobs. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 88

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'Comfort yourself,' said the stranger kindly; 'they shall neither send your husband to prison nor sell your goods.

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**Who acts:** stranger, sobs · **What happens:** comfort, say, send, sell · **To what, where:** yourself, husband, prison, goods · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, sobs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:31:88
# text = 'Comfort yourself,' said the stranger kindly; 'they shall neither send your husband to prison nor sell your goods.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Comfort	comfort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
21	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comfort** | infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the stranger |  |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **send** | shall | sobs *= sob* | your husband |  | prison |  | neither *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent husband=Theme to prison=Destination |
| 4 | **sell** | infinitive | sobs *= sob* *not said here* | your goods |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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